Study Skills Worksheet: Flashcards
Study tip (Ask, answer, flip): Front: the question or cue (“Capital of Kerala?”). Back: the answer (“Thiruvananthapuram”). Good habits: one fact per card, answer first then flip, shuffle the deck, more practice on misses, make your own cards. Poor habits: a whole page per card, flipping straight away, the same order always, only the easy cards.
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- 1.Which of these goes on the front of a flashcard? (a) 56 (b) modern (c) mice (d) Capital of Kerala?
- 2.🃏 Good or poor flashcard habit: making your own cards? (a) a poor flashcard habit (b) a good flashcard habit
- 3.True or false: “making your own cards” is a good flashcard habit. (a) True (b) False
- 4.🃏 Good or poor flashcard habit: one fact per card? (a) a poor flashcard habit (b) a good flashcard habit
- 5.🃏 Why shuffle your flashcards? (a) to make it messy (b) so order gives no clue (c) to finish faster (d) to lose some
- 6.True or false: “only the easy cards” is a poor flashcard habit. (a) True (b) False
- 7.🃏 Why say the answer before you flip the card? (a) it looks smart (b) it is active recall (c) it saves cards (d) it is faster
- 8.True or false: “the same order always” is a poor flashcard habit. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🃏 Good or poor flashcard habit: more practice on misses? (a) a poor flashcard habit (b) a good flashcard habit
- 10.Which of these is a good flashcard habit? (a) a whole page per card (b) the same order always (c) never testing yourself (d) more practice on misses
- 11.🃏 Front or back of a flashcard? “modern” (a) the back (b) the front
- 12.Which of these goes on the back of a flashcard? (a) Formula for speed? (b) What do roots do? (c) Plural of “mouse”? (d) Thiruvananthapuram
- 13.Which of these is a poor flashcard habit? (a) making your own cards (b) shuffling the deck (c) a question on the front (d) reading both sides
- 14.Which of these goes on the front of a flashcard? (a) distance ÷ time (b) Opposite of “ancient”? (c) 56 (d) take in water
- 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a whole page per card (b) a question on the front (c) making your own cards (d) one fact per card
- 16.🃏 Front or back of a flashcard? “7 × 8 = ?” (a) the back (b) the front
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading both sides (b) the same order always (c) only the easy cards (d) answer first, then flip
- 18.🃏 Which cards should you practise most? (a) the prettiest ones (b) the cards you know (c) the cards you missed (d) the newest only
- 19.True or false: “making your own cards” is a poor flashcard habit. (a) False (b) True
- 20.🃏 Good or poor flashcard habit: shuffling the deck? (a) a poor flashcard habit (b) a good flashcard habit
- 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading both sides (b) shuffling the deck (c) never testing yourself (d) only the easy cards
- 22.Which of these is a good flashcard habit? (a) flipping straight away (b) only the easy cards (c) reading both sides (d) making your own cards
- 23.True or false: “a whole page per card” is a good flashcard habit. (a) True (b) False
- 24.Which of these goes on the back of a flashcard? (a) What do roots do? (b) take in water (c) 7 × 8 = ? (d) Capital of Kerala?
- 25.🃏 How much should one flashcard hold? (a) ten facts (b) a whole chapter (c) one fact or idea (d) a full page
- 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) only the easy cards (b) never testing yourself (c) flipping straight away (d) making your own cards
- 27.Which of these goes on the front of a flashcard? (a) distance ÷ time (b) modern (c) mice (d) 7 × 8 = ?
- 28.Which of these is a good flashcard habit? (a) a whole page per card (b) one fact per card (c) the same order always (d) flipping straight away
- 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) more practice on misses (b) flipping straight away (c) a whole page per card (d) the same order always
- 30.Which of these goes on the front of a flashcard? (a) take in water (b) mice (c) Thiruvananthapuram (d) Plural of “mouse”?
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading both sides (b) one fact per card (c) more practice on misses (d) making your own cards
- 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one fact per card (b) a question on the front (c) the same order always (d) shuffling the deck
- 33.🃏 Making your own cards helps because… (a) nobody checks them (b) you think as you write (c) they are cheaper (d) they look nicer
- 34.Which of these is a poor flashcard habit? (a) one fact per card (b) more practice on misses (c) a question on the front (d) only the easy cards
- 35.🃏 Good or poor flashcard habit: a question on the front? (a) a good flashcard habit (b) a poor flashcard habit
- 36.True or false: “flipping straight away” is a good flashcard habit. (a) False (b) True
- 37.True or false: “never testing yourself” is a poor flashcard habit. (a) False (b) True
- 38.True or false: “more practice on misses” is a poor flashcard habit. (a) False (b) True
- 39.True or false: “only the easy cards” is a good flashcard habit. (a) False (b) True
- 40.🃏 You got a flashcard wrong. What should you do with it? (a) never use it again (b) see it again sooner (c) throw it away (d) hide it for a month
Answer key
- Capital of Kerala?
- a good flashcard habit
- True
- a good flashcard habit
- so order gives no clue
- True
- it is active recall
- True
- a good flashcard habit
- more practice on misses
- the back
- Thiruvananthapuram
- reading both sides
- Opposite of “ancient”?
- a whole page per card
- the front
- answer first, then flip
- the cards you missed
- False
- a good flashcard habit
- shuffling the deck
- making your own cards
- False
- take in water
- one fact or idea
- making your own cards
- 7 × 8 = ?
- one fact per card
- more practice on misses
- Plural of “mouse”?
- reading both sides
- the same order always
- you think as you write
- only the easy cards
- a good flashcard habit
- False
- True
- False
- False
- see it again sooner
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